Canadian Glaciers In Rapid Retreat

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OTTAWA -- "Glacier cover in the Canadian Rockies is nearing its lowest point in 10,000 years and water levels on the St. Lawrence Seaway have fallen significantly in the last century, according to the federal government's latest compilation of environmental statistics.

While the country's water resources diminish, however, consumption by Canadians is among the highest per capita in the world.

About 1,300 of Canada's glaciers have lost between 25 per cent and 75 per cent of their mass since 1850, Statistics Canada said Wednesday in a report entitled Human Activity and the Environment: Annual Statistics. Most of the losses have been recorded in the last 50 years.

'Along the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains, glacier cover is receding rapidly and is now close to its lowest level in 10,000 years,' the report said. On the St. Lawrence, levels at Montreal 'averaged two metres above the long-term average low-water mark at the outset of the last century.'"

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[GreenGreenLimaBean]

1. HR keep posting

Glacier disappearance stories are getting more attention since
they are proof of the planet warming. I just wish more people would
see the significance of this catastrophe in the making

[ramapo]

2. Out of sight...

Out of mind. That's the basic situation. Everything looks ok to just about everybody in their own little insular world.

There's not much media coverage of environmental problems. Most of TV is fantasy time.

People will see the significance when it literally smacks them in the head.

Of course, it'll be a bit late then.